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I Got The News Today (IGTNT), the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos, provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.   The IGTNT title is a reminder that nearly every day the family of an active duty service member receives the terrible news that their beloved has died.

I Got The News Today (IGTNT) is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos. It is a way for our community to pay respect to those who have died as a result of war.

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Afghanistan has long been a troubled country. August 7th was a day that was called "one of the bloodiest in the war’s 14-year history”. A truck bomb killed at least 15 Afghan people and sent 240 more to hospitals. Another suicide attack killed 30 police and civilians outside a police academy. The last attack of that day was on a U.S. special operations base near Kabul airport. It was reported that one U.S. soldier and eight Afghan guards had been killed.

Later, the U.S. Department of Defense identified the soldier as Master Sergeant Peter Andrew McKenna Jr., a native of Rhode Island.

The eight Afghan guards were identified as employees of an Afghan subcontractor working for Academi, an American security firm formerly known as Blackwater, among other names.

I Got The News Today (IGTNT) one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos, provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as serving in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Freedom's Sentinel.  

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Special Commentary by Sandy on Signal
Tonight, we honor the 4 Marines and a Sailor killed in a senseless attack in Chattanooga.   IGTNT normally does not cover those killed in the United States, but we decided as a group to make an exception, just as we did when the Fort Hood massacre happened in 2009.  The U.S. Marine Corps is also treating their deaths with the same honors they give to those killed while on active duty.   U.S. Marine Corps spokesman, Major Paul Greenberg, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press, their deaths are given the same honors as Marines who are killed during war.  Their bodies were sent to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.  
Major Greenberg told the Chattanooga Times Free Press:

"Upon arrival, transfer cases will be draped and an honorable transfer will be conducted"….. he later added "I can state with confidence that these Marines were serving their country honorably, performing their duties in a professional manner, at the time of their death,"

Gunnery Sgt Thomas J. Sullivan Staff Sgt David A. Wyatt Sgt Carson A. Holmquist Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Randall Smith Lance Cpl Squire K. Wells

I Got The News Today (IGTNT), the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos, provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The IGTNT title is a reminder that nearly every day the family of an active duty service member receives the terrible news that their beloved has died.

Tonight we honor Pfc. Monterrious T. Daniel, 19, of Griffin, Georgia, who died June 12 in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, in a non-combat related incident. Please join me for a remembrance of his life.

I Got The News Today (IGTNT), which is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos, provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as serving in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Freedom's Sentinel.  

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Pfc. Monterrious T. Daniel

I Got The News Today (IGTNT), which is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos, provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as serving in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Freedom's Sentinel.  

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Krissie K. Davis

I Got The News Today (IGTNT) is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos. It is a way for our community to pay respect to those who have died as a result of war.

The beautiful logo was created by Timroff


We face another sad evening remembering a fine soldier lost. Master Sergeant Pablo A. Ruiz III who was from Florida, was serving in the US Army as a non-commissioned officer in Afghanistan when he died.

I Got The News Today (IGTNT), which is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos, provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and in Operation Inherent Resolve.  The IGTNT  title is a reminder that nearly every day the family of an active duty service member receives the terrible news that their beloved has died.
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan D. Burris

I Got The News Today (IGTNT) is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos. It is a way for our community to pay respect to those who have died as a result of war.

The beautiful logo was created by Timroff


It is another sad time for our community and for the entire US. We gather tonight to remember the life of a sailor who died while in service to his country. Petty Officer 3rd Class Devon J. Doyle was from the state of Colorado. He had graduated in 2012 and had just celebrated his 21st birthday.

I Got The News Today (IGTNT) is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos. It is a way for our community to pay respect to those who have died as a result of war.

The beautiful logo was created by Timroff




Once again, we gather to pay our respects to one who has fallen while in service to our nation. Tonight we remember the life of an airman from California. He is the first casualty from Operation Inherent Resolve in the year 2015. Last year, there were three other sad deaths, reported by the Department of Defense, of those supporting that operation.

Unable are the loved to die.  For love is immortality.  ~Emily Dickinson

I Got the News Today (IGTNT) is a diary series intended to honor service members who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The title is a reminder that almost every day a military family gets the terrible news about a loved one.

I Got The News Today (IGTNT), which began in April of 2004, is one of the oldest continuous series on Daily Kos and provides members of this community a venue to pay their respects to those who have died as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  

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Since 2003 there have been 4489 US casualties in Iraq and since 2001 there have been 2357 US casualties in Afghanistan. Source.

Tonight, we light a candle of memory against the darkness of grief and loss.                                                     Tonight, we remember

This retrospective is a compilation of 2014's "I Got the News Today" (IGTNT) memorial diaries from January through December. They are tributes to the American service members who died as a result of the war in Afghanistan and Operation Inherent Resolve. When you click on the links, you'll find their stories, the details that their teachers, neighbors, fellow service members and friends remember; the last phone calls home; their Facebook messages to loved ones. These are not numbers or abstractions. They were husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, parents, children, friends, colleagues, brothers and sisters in arms. Their lives mattered.

To our supporters: Please know how much your presence, witnessing, standing vigil and posting condolences meant this year and in every year of this series.

To the IGTNT team members Sandy on Signal, i dunno, noweasels, blue jersey mom, Chacounne, twilight falling, SisTwo, SpamNunn, TrueBlueMajority, CalNM, Wide Awake in Kentucky, maggiejean, Ekaterin, TheFatLadySings, Joy of Fishes, and me, JaxDem: Many blessings for your dedication and compassionate efforts in researching and writing these tributes to our nation's fallen heroes.

To the families and friends who may read this: We have not forgotten your loved one.  

As is our tradition for this end of year tribute, we have chosen "We Remember Them" by Rabbis Sylvan Kamens and Jack Riemer, to help us reflect on these losses. Thank you for being here tonight to honor, respect and remember.